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The Product Owner Problem

LeanEssays

“We’re really struggling with the Product Owner concept, and many of our Scrum teams just don’t feel very productive.” The company had several vertical markets, with a Scrum team of about ten people assigned to each market. Each market had a Product Manager, a traditional role found in most product companies.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. He had already met with many top software providers to learn about their ability to deliver high-quality software and demonstrate Agile software development capabilities. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. How the doubling rate resulted in a lack of leaders that can develop an industry discipline (6:34). Developing a common language of change in the trade (24:24).

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? Not possible.